28 TEN OAKS NURSERY AND GARDENS 
Rhododendron Hybrids on North wall. Seven varieties at the home of the Sec-Treas. 
RHODODENDRON 
The popularity of Rhododendron in American gar- 
dens has greatly increased within the past few years 
and the public now is demanding rightly, varieties that 
will not only give a show of beautiful foliage and 
flowers, but results after planting.. We have been for 
quite a few years at great cost trying to weed out the 
weak ones, through our research gardens and select 
Hybrids and natives that will stand the most heat, the 
most cold and our changeable climate, so that we can 
change the name from Rhododendron exasperatum to 
_Rhododendron dependabilis. 
For best results plant on the north-west side of a 
building or in a shaded area where the morning sun 
‘does not hit them in winter and the afternoon sun 
does not hit them in the hot summertime. Well drained 
soil, that is always damp but not wet and where lime 
has never been used. They like an acid soil. Plant under 
the same. conditions of soil as Holly and use the same 
Plant Yews for an Azalea background. 
Fertilizer, mulch well and keep mulched. Protect from 
the winds in winter by a small portable lath fence or 
evergreen boughs until well established. Remove last 
year’s flower buds every year in June for heavy flower- 
ing the following year. Water well in mid-summer as 
they are making next year’s flower buds at that time, 
and see that they go into the winter wet. . 
Following are a few varieties we have proven hardy 
and will tolerate our changes from Zero to 100 degrees. 
Others will be listed as our experiments prove them 
capable. 
HYBRIDS 
Catawbienese grandiflorum. A. Light purple. 
15-18 inch Height 6.00 
18-24 inch Height 7.50 
Caractacus. A. Crimson. A ie 
18-24 inch Height 7.50 
Fertilize Azaleas in March and June. 
